day 254, the final day, the final shopping day

03 May 2005

Day 254. And finally, the final day. And it had to be a shopping day.
Singapore to Russia to Finland to Estonia to Finland to Sweden to
Norway to Sweden to Denmark to Germany to Poland to Slovakia to
Czech Republic to Austria to Romania to Hungary to Croatia to
Slovenia to Italy to France to Spain to Portugal to Spain to Switzerland
to France to Belgium to The Netherlands to Britain The Netherlands to
Brazil to Argentina to Chile to Argentina to Chile to Peru to Ecuador to
Mexico to USA to Japan to Singapore.

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Those are Japanese coins.

My Northwest flight stickers back to Singapore.

The final boarding pass. The final country ~ Singapore.
And the circle is complete.

pumped about B-Pump

01 to 02 May 2005

This was the third climbing gym I’ve visited this trip. The Castle in London, Rocodromo in Quito, and B-Pump in Tokyo. But I’ve yet to climb in any of them. I’m pumped from seeing but not climbing.

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Kamakura was over-crowded hordes of tourists,
mostly Japanese tourists.

B-Pump made me pumped.

These are some Metro stamps.

Look at the super complex Metro map.

Tokyo, the final postcard.

we were back in Asia, where did the time go?

28 to 30 April 2005

As they say, “Time flies while you are having fun.” I guess we must be having
too much fun. Suddenly, we were already on our 249th day, in Tokyo.
And in a few more days, we would be back where we started.
One full circle. Back in Singapore.

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Time flew. And faster than ever too. We lost one day when we flew
from San Francisco to Tokyo.

That’s the business card of our hotel.
Very tiny rooms… Japanese-styled.

And the map is behind.

We walked a lot in Tokyo. But we didn’t walk to New York.
We took a Metro. It’s actually Odaiba with the Statue of Liberty.

It was the end of April 2005. Almost the end of our trip.